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Looking for a beach read for your next summer weekend in Westchester? These two picks from Westchester authors are page-turners.
All the Summers in Between
By Brooke Lea Foster
Simon & Schuster (2024)
320 pages (hardcover, kindle, audiobook)
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In her third novel (following Summer Darlings and On Gin Lane), Scarsdale-based author Brooke Lea Foster spins a tale of complex female friendship — told in parallel timelines — and explores such themes as loyalty and the pursuit of fulfillment in life. During the summer of 1967, set in the vividly portrayed Hamptons, a wealthy, young Margot meets a hardworking local girl, Thea, and they become besties, but are driven apart after an unspeakable incident that occurs one August night. The two become estranged for 10 years and then, in 1977, reconnect when Margot suddenly reappears to visit Thea. Margot is begging for help and needs to hide out, and her old friend’s boundaries are tested with just how far she is willing to go.
Anna Bright Is Hiding Something
By Susie Orman Schnall
SparkPress (2024)
331 pages (pbk, kindle, audiobook)
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Inspired by the true-life tale of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal, author and Purchase resident Susie Orman Schnall, felt compelled to work on her fifth novel. Anna Bright is Hiding Something explores “the cultural zeitgeist of the female-founder phenomenon through the exploits of an earnest and bold journalist who exposes the fraud of an enigmatic female founder on the eve of her company’s IPO,” says Schnall. A perfect summer page-turner, Anna Bright is Hiding Something touches on power and ambition, while exploring how women try to break barriers for themselves. “I want to embrace the energy of this topic, and its orbiting topics, through fiction,” she says.
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